@article {11060479520151029,
	title = {A semi-analytical performance prediction of a digital communication system using Fourier transform inversion.},
	journal = {EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications \& Networking},
	volume = {2015},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {1 - 13},
	abstract = {Analytical performance evaluation of a digital communication system remains a serious problem especially when a sophisticated digital signal processing is considered. Moreover, it is difficult to obtain the expected performance of such system using the Monte Carlo simulation method. In this paper, we propose a new semi-analytical approach for predicting error probability in a digital communication system. This approach is based on Fourier transform inversion formula to estimate the probability density function (pdf) of the observed soft sample at the receiver. Furthermore, we applied a bootstrap method for selecting the optimal smoothing parameter to make the proposed semi-analytical method more accurate. Simulation results show that the obtained semi-analytical error probability is close to the one measured using Monte Carlo simulation and provides a significant gain in terms of computing time. Besides, the use of the bootstrap method decreases the squared error between the true pdf},
	keywords = {Bit error probability, Bit error rate {\textendash} Research, Digital communications {\textendash} Research, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy {\textendash} Research, Fourier transform inversion, Monte Carlo method {\textendash} Research, pdf, Semi-analytical approach, Signal processing {\textendash} Digital techniques {\textendash} Research, Smoothing parameter},
	issn = {16871472},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=110604795\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Naamane, Fatima and Et-tolba, Mohamed and Belkasmi, Mostafa}
}
